covered with black-brown bark ; branches suberect, two to 

 four inches high, green, puberulous, leafy. Leaves rather 

 crowded, opposite and alternate, about an inch long, 

 rather fleshy, ovate, subacute, narrowed into a very short 

 petiole, minutely hairy on both surfaces, bright green 

 above, silvery beneath ; margins reddish, ciliolate, and 

 bearing distant minute circular glands. Flowers few, from 

 the upper leaf axils ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 and as well as the calyx and corolla, filaments, and style, 

 glandular-hairy. Calyx very small, 4-partite, segments 

 ovate-lanceolate. Corolla about an inch long, orange- 

 scarlet, laterally compressed, curved ; tube narrow for 

 half its length, then dilated into a hooded deeply 2-lipped 

 limb; upper lip 4-toothed, teeth rounded, lateral largest, 

 and margins recurved, intermediate connate below ; lower 

 lip linear, obtuse, recurved. Stamens exserted for nearly 

 half their length, filaments purple; anthers oblong, 

 glabrous; staminode minute. Dish cylindric, glabrous, 

 mouth crenulate. Ovary narrow, quite glabrous ; style 

 exserted, as long as the stamens, stigma minute. Capsule 

 2^ in. long, very slender. Seeds with the hairs half an 

 inch long. — J. D. H. 



Fig 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2, segments of calyx, disk and ovary; 

 .5, corolla laid open and stamens ; 4 and 5, anthers -.—All enlarged. 



